Thanks for the advice about using parsers. I'll look into them once I've got this problem fixed. The xml is output from another program I wrote a while ago, so I understand what should be there. As for my current problem, when I run code, the Perl interpreter points to the first print line you had, and says: Not a HASH reference ... I went here with the debugger, and saw this 
x $self
0  POSwitch=HASH(0x1bc4c8)
   'Id' => 'tp_incoming.vsd.10.Switch'
   'Object' => 'Mailbox.gender'
   'poName' => 'POSwitch'
   'valuePair' => ARRAY(0x1a7b94)
      0  SCALAR(0xc79d8)
         -> HASH(0xc7984)
            'targetPo' => 'ERROR000'
            'value' => 'xdefault'
      1  SCALAR(0xc7a5c)
         -> HASH(0xc79e4)
            'targetPo' => 'tp_incoming.vsd.10.Menu'
            'value' => 'Mailbox.GENDER_MALE'
      2  SCALAR(0xc7a8c)
         -> HASH(0xc7a68)
            'targetPo' => 'tp_incoming.vsd.10.Menu.9'
            'value' => 'Mailbox.GENDER_FEMALE'

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and 
  DB<4> x $entry
0  SCALAR(0xc79d8)
   -> HASH(0xc7984)
      'targetPo' => 'ERROR000'
      'value' => 'xdefault'

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It's almost, but not quite there! ...regan

In reply to Re: Re: HoAoH by regan
in thread hashes, arrays, and references... oh my by regan

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